@Jordan_W_Taylor The amount of hurdles to overcome to get even a new winglet design into production these days,tells me the chance of it reaching production is the same as uss enterprise!
Roger federer is now a billionaire and made more money from his footwear deal than his tennis career. Are there any other examples of this - making more from something other than their main career?
I can think of a few:
1. Bono - Private Equity
2. Michael Jordan - Nike
3. George Clooney - Casamigos Tequila
4. Dr. Dre - Beats any others ?
any others ?
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What’s your biggest AI regret?
Back in the day there was a lot of low hanging fruit to be picked in improving the algebraic subroutines on GPU’s -
Before Nvidia cornered the industry.
BLAS CUBLAS LAPACK etc
Were talking in the weeds algebra stuff like
Matrix-matrix operations, SVD, eigenvalue decomposition etc. Some of the maths was (marginally) inefficient but as things have scaled those percentage points began to matter!
I ignored this problem because all the cool shiny stuff was at the model architecture layer and above.
If I could go back, I would have worked on this unglamorous largely unappreciated foundational part of our modern world.
I don’t know how active an area this is anymore - I assume Nvidia has the best people working on it.
So next time you ask ChatGPT to generate a meme about a toad, spare a thought for all the unsung algebrists making sure those pixels get forward propagated as efficiently as possible. We salute thee 🫡 @karpathy@demishassabis@DarioAmodei@ClementDelangue